Shashi Deshpande, born in Dharwad, a small town in the state of
Karnataka in Southern India, is a Sahitya Akademi award-winning
novelist who writes in English. The daughter of Shriranga ,the
renowned Sanskrit scholar and dramatist, she moved to Mumbai at the
age of fifteen and later graduated in Economics, before moving to
Bangalore where she earned a law degree. Marriage and family took
up most of her time in the years that followed, though she managed
a diploma in Journalism and a short stint working in a magazine. It
was only in 1970 that her writing career took off, initially with
short stories, now collected in several volumes. Today she is a
recognized Indian voice, author of four children’s books and six
novels, besides …

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